Under Rainy Skies, Los Angeles Teachers Take To The Picket Lines Educators and their supporters gathered outside of schools Monday, then converged near Los Angeles City Hall in a sea of umbrellas, ponchos and signs. LA last saw a teacher strike nearly 30 years ago. Elissa Nadworny
Teachers In LA Prepare To Strike Monday: 'It's So Much Bigger Than A Pay Raise' Teachers in Los Angeles plan to go on strike Monday morning for the first time in 30 years. The union is asking for increased salaries, smaller class sizes and more nurses and librarians. Elissa Nadworny
'This Is Our Life': LA Teachers' Union Set To Strike For Better Conditions, More Resources On Monday, more than 30,000 Los Angeles teachers could go on strike — the result of failed negotiations between the LA teachers' union and school district. Half a million students would be affected. Elissa Nadworny
Los Angeles Teachers' Union Says It's Ready To Strike Despite Friday negotiations, no agreement was reached between the teachers' union and the Los Angeles school district. Teachers plan to go on strike on Monday. Elissa Nadworny
Seattle Public Schools, beset by late buses all year, prepares for Viadoom Seattle School District is taking steps to reduce the impact of the viaduct closure on the 55,000 children who come and go from nearly 100 schools each weekday. Ann Dornfeld
Report: College Students Are Hungry And Government Programs Could Do More To Help A federal report finds many undergraduates are too hungry to learn, and don't have enough information to access the federal resources available to help. Elissa Nadworny
L.A. Teachers Poised To Strike For More Pay And Student Services NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Los Angeles Times reporter Howard Blume as more than 30,000 teachers in the city could strike as early as Thursday. They're fighting for more pay and student services.
Parkland Shooting Panel Report Calls For Arming Teachers, Chronicles Slew Of Blunders The 439-page report provides an account of what led to the massacre last year and it notes instances in which officials told untruths about what happened and how they responded. Vanessa Romo
Bennett College Needs To Raise $5 Million Or It May Lose Accreditation Noel King talks to Phyllis Worthy Dawkins, president of Bennett College in Greensboro, N.C., about the possibility that the women-only and historically black college, may lose its accreditation.
Kansas Teen Set To Graduate High School And Finish Harvard Degree When Braxton Moral of Kansas was in third grade, his teacher told his parents that he was "really, really gifted." In May he'll graduate high school and days later pick up his undergraduate degree.